M42 with Sony A7

[RobertM]

I thought BYE supported the camera?

I don't think so, that's for Canon EOS cameras.

[Mike]

Robert why did you choose a Sony camera?

[RobertM]

Hi Mike,

It was the particular camera that interested me.

1) Full frame
2) mirrorless so no mirror box shadows
3) exceptional ISO performance (I can see the trapezium and surrounding nebulosity in live view).
4) in camera apps that mean less reliance on a computer.
5) no back focus issues with almost any lens.
6) no stupidly small pixels.

And more importantly, it came in at a good price converted.

Robert

[The Thing]

I thought BYE supported the camera?

I think all software is about to start supporting the Sonys, but BYE has a Nikon version at present but not Sony.

[RobertM]

This is a link to the full size (after cropping), the one originally posted is a flickr resized version.

<link>https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7381/16527691905_ac64ce0365_o.jpg</link>

[Mike]

Absolutely stunning.

[JohnP]

That is amazing Robert - are all the little light coloured bits (all over the image) jpeg compression artifacts...?

[RobertM]

John, that's me being careless with deconvolution and noise reduction - I got both a bit wrong !  Some may be faint stars but not that many.

Robert

[MarkS]

I've just compared it with an old one of mine:  http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2008/m42_2008.html

Yours has got far more detail in it - better colouring as well.  I suspect my guiding wasn't much good though - guiding with a Philips Toucam back then!

Mark